Jun 30, 2017 · in twos. in groups of two. Share. Improve this answer. Follow edited Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40. Community Bot ...

Dec 26, 2014 · OED does use the spelling twos: A.2.d. two and two, two by two, formerly also by two and two: in groups or sets of two; two at a time; by twos. BUT you're not talking about the word two. You're talking about homophones of the word two — to, too and two. You can't say "There are three twos", because there aren't.

Oct 9, 2017 · 3) Two twos make four. [informal speech, not arithmetic, cards, for example] Correction: Two twos make four. [plural nouns take a plural verb] The plural of two is twos, just like threes and fours, etc. "I have two twos, an ace and two kings." [poker, five cards per hand] "There are only three fours in this deck. One is missing."

Jul 19, 2022 · The exact sequence twos and ones and ones and twos doesn't even occur once in all the millions of books indexed in Google Books. And it only gets 3 hits on the entire Internet (Google obviously hasn't yet indexed this new ELU question itself!

May 18, 2018 · What are "the twos"? Ask Question Asked 6 years, 10 months ago. Modified 6 years, 10 months ago. Viewed 2k ...

Apr 16, 2016 · The common saying two is company, three's a crowd is often associated with a romantic context: . Prov. A way of asking a third person to leave because you want to be alone with someone.

Twos' complement = complement of a number of twos (plural) One's complement = complement of a single 1; Ones' complement = complement of a number of ones (plural) The Wikipedia articles (Ones' complement, Two's complement) describe two's complement and ones' complement as two different mathematical operations. Two's complement is related to a ...

Mar 14, 2019 · It turns out that different people, and different cultures, express arithmetic calculations differently. "Four twos make an eight" is a reasonable thing to say when explaining multiplication of 4 times 2, but it's not the only way. As for plurals, treat the digits as nouns - ones, twos, threes, fours, fives, .... Ignore apostrophe plurals in ...

Sep 11, 2023 · You can use any of the following: with two esses. with two Ss. with two S's. with two s's. Ability to format permitting, and font suitably different between italic and roman, you could also italicise the first S to signify mention over use.

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